PÔLE RÉGIONAL DES MUSIQUES ACTUELLES DE LA REUNION
A non-profit making association, Pôle Régional des Musiques Actuelles opened on September 1st 1997 from a common will of the French Ministry of Culture and the Regional Council to etablish a partnership with the cultural users and actors who are concerned with the modern and traditional musics in Reunion Island. His four missions are :
- Patrimony : Collecting and filing the sound documents, photographies, video, music sheets ..., creation of Takamba, a record label centered on our musical patrimony...
- Information : Setting up of a documentation centre, editing of "Muzikalité" a bulletin of professional information, opening of web sites (runmusic.com, muzikannuaire.com, takamba.com) , consulting service for musicians and professionals...
- Training : Regular organization of training periods, master-classes and workshops of instrumental practice, and more important sessions of vocal, scenic, technical and arrangement, administrative works...
- Export and Promotion: Organization of professional meetings within the local major musical events, presence at professional international events as the WOMEX (World Music Expo), MIDEM , Bab El Med Music, networks development, etc, press relation, publishing of promotional samplers
- Cultural Studies: Collaborating with Université de La Réunion (Reunion Island's University) and the local authorities, the Pôle Régional Des Musiques actuelles de La Réunion (PRMA) has become since 2006 a musical research institute. Its main field of research is the study of musical practises in Reunion (at school, on records, amongst musicians, in concerts), in order to submit reports, start debates and trigger potential evolution.
POLE RÉGIONAL DES MUSIQUES ACTUELLES DE LA REUNION
6 Bis, Rue Pasteur -B.P. 1018 - 97481 SAINT-DENIS CEDEX
Reunion Island (F)
TÉL. : +262(0) 262 90 94 60 FAX. :+262 (0)262 90 94 61 Chairman of the Board :
Dominique CARRERE Director :
Alain COURBIS Assistant :
Nadège NAGES Administrator:
Teddy JAMOIS Takamba Label Manager:
Fanie PRECOURT Public Relations:
Matthieu MEYER Research:
Guillaume SAMSON
http://www.runmusic.com
Meddy Gerville
Pianist, songwriter, composer and singer Meddy Gerville, has been making Reunion Island vibrate with the sound of his maloya jazz for almost ten years.
He has worked with musicians such as Sixun bass player Michel Alibo, Dominique Di Piazza, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Matthew Garrison or Danyèl Waro... Meddy mixes jazz with the music of his native island.
This unique fusion between jazz and maloya has progressively taken him into the “higher sphere of the big boys”. Don’t miss it!
www.myspace.com/meddygerville
www.meddygerville.com
Contact:
Teddy MOUTALICA / RUN MANAGEMENT
Mob: +262 (0)6 92 56 50 47
Mail: teddy@meddygervillegroup.com
Site: www.myspace.com/runmanagement
René Lacaille
Born in 1946, René Lacaille is the master of the spicy séga rhythms of Reunion Island. In his 20’s, René abandoned the accordion for the guitar, and formed the now-legendary group Caméléon, the true inventors of Electric Maloya.
Rene’s Sax Séga would prove to be a hit on the francophone market, and is still featured on Air France’s musical programs. In 1979, René moved to France and continued his musical progression in jazz and fusion. In his 1996 release Aster, René draws on all of his preferred influences.
To mark his return to accordion and the hot séga and maloya rhythms of his homeland, René recorded Patampo with Danyel Waro and with Rene’s percussionists Joel Gonthier and Bernard Marka.
Since meeting Bob Brozman in 1999, René has toured with him in Europe, South Africa, and Canada. René continues to compose new music at an astounding rate.
In 2002, René and Bob released Digdig (meaning “tickles”) on World Music Network. It became an international hit, reaching 3 in Europe’s World Music charts. René and Bob have toured extensively and repeatedly throughout Europe, Canada, East Africa and Australia. René’s talents continue to introduce him into new countries each year, helping to span his reach from Europe and Africa to Canada, Brazil, China, and the USA. René’s second album for World Music Network, Mapou, has been released in 2005 to great acclaim. His new album Cordeon Kameleon is to be released in October 2008.
www.myspace.com/renelacaille
www.renelacaille.com
Contact :
Tour: Catherine BIHAN LOISON / DAKTARI MUSIC
4 rue George Sand 29200 Brest - F
Tél : +33 (0)2 98 43 56 50 Fax +33 (0)2 98 43 81 27
Mob: +33 (0)6 81 65 26 95
Mail: catherine@daktari-music.com
Site: www.daktari-music.com
Production: Serge GLANZBERG / G-POINT MUSIC
190 bv de Charonne
75020 Paris - FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0) 6-12-88-96-93
Mob: +33 1-43-56-21-61
Site: www.g-point-music.com
Baster
Baster is a band that has always known how to fit its composition to the music it wanted to play. Its leader, Thierry Gauliris has always struggled to stand up for his music since 1983 and the birth of his association "Mouvman Kiltirel Basse-Terre".
Baster’s style, halfway between maloya and séga, is very influenced by reggae music. Thierry Gauliris is a charismatic leader who knows how to captivate the audience. Its live performance mixes sophisticated tracks and jam sessions during which Baster demonstrates its talent.
Baster has released many albums that have been very well received in Reunion Island. Its album Kaf Gong Reggae was recorded in the famous Tuff Gong studios in Jamaica and released in 2002, establishing Baster as a band that music professionals could not ignore anymore.
2008 is a very special year for the band: after 25 years of playing music and with a new album in progress (recorded, again, in Jamaica), Baster announces a definitely “reggae” record and clearly aims for exportation. Production team has notably worked with main artists such as Serge Gainsbourg, Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keys….
From January 2009, Baster will travel through Europe to promote this release.
Contact :
Georges Latérade G.E.P./ RUNADELIK
Mob: +262 (0)6 92 82 36 65
Mail: runadelik@orange.fr
Salem Tradition
Born and raised in the "Camélias" district, a humble neighbourhood of the city of Saint-Denis, La Reunion, Christine Salem comes from a new generation of female performers who sings Maloya. She wrote her first songs at the age of 12 and, mixing maloya, sega and blues, she started singing in the streets with friends.
Initially performing various musical genres as a backup singer, Christine gave herself very quickly to her passion and sang full-time. She then decided to launch out in a musical career by forming her own group, Salem Tradition, in 1997.
She subtly mixes the musics of Indian Ocean with African rhythms, using local traditional instruments like "rouleur" (the bass drum made of a wooden barrel covered with a cow skin), "kayamb", "pikèr" (a big bamboo stick), West African drums dundum, and djembe.
Surrounded by a vocalist and three percussionists, Christine Salem chants with an almost raucous but utterly bewitched voice, an inspired Maloya rooted in the Afro-Madagascan and Indian Ocean heritage.
Lyrics of her songs contain the evolution of life with its joys, its sorrows and its revolts in the spoken Creole or Malagasy dialects, Comorian or Swahili, the inheritance of her ancestors.
Her last album, Fanm, released on Cobalt, received a critical acclaim. She will appear in Africolor Festival in december 2008.
www.myspace.com/salemtradition
Contact :
Philippe CONRATH / ACCENT AIGU
AFRICOLOR 5, rue Arthur Groussier 75010 PARIS
Tél : +33 (0)1 47 97 69 99 Fax : +33 (0)1 47 97 65 44
Mail: philippe@africolor.com
Lindigo
« Once you know where you come from, you know where to go ». This is Lindigo’s motto.
Lindigo is a maloya band created in 1999 and is at the moment considered as the flagship of Reunion Island’s newest musical scene. The band is known for throwing itself into amazing stage performances combining the instrumental tradition of maloya and Malagasy polyphony.
Lindigo is a group of musicians of Malagasy origins, gathered around Harry Araste, its charismatic composer-songwriter and singer.
Lindigo music is influenced by “servis kabaré”, the ritual ceremony that honours ancestors and, by tradition, comes very close to trance.
In 2004, the band toured the French Alliances of Mauritius, Madagascar and East Africa and released its first album called Misaotra Mama ("Thank you Mummy"), receiving critical acclaim in Reunion Island. Five thousand copies of the second album called Zanatany (“Child from the earth”) have already been sold.
The next album, Lafrikindmada is currently being recorded, for a scheduled release in 2009 on Cobalt.
www.myspace.com/lindigo
www.lindigo.musicblog.fr
Contact :
Philippe CONRATH / ACCENT AIGU
AFRICOLOR 5, rue Arthur Groussier 75010 PARIS
Tél : +33 (0)1 47 97 69 99 Fax : +33 (0)1 47 97 65 44
Mail: philippe@africolor.com
Gramoun Sello
Gramoun Sello was born in St Louis, Reunion Island on April 18th 1949. He grew up in the yard of a sugar factory called “Etablissement du Gol” in the south of the island. As a young boy, he worked in the sugar cane fields of the property, which kept him away from school. Gramoun Sello was born in Maloya and grew up in “servis kabaré” as he says himself, always feeling like he already knew maloya.
In 1980, he settles in St Pierre, where he will create the legendary “Troupe Roséda” with a group of friends.
Retired from playing live in 2000 after 20 years of maloya, he comes back on stage in 2005 with a new album The Legend of maloya, a live recording done with the support of Stephane Grondin (ethnomusicologist and chairman of Maloyallstars Production).
With is exceptional, powerful and soft voice, Gramoun Sello speaks about our daily life, about our joys and sorrows in a matchless and juicy way.
The comeback of this master of maloya is a real event that we invite you to discover urgently on his new record Ampélémouné released this year.
You have certainly seen Gramoun Sello and the Maloya All Stars perform at the latest edition of Babel Med Music in Marseille and we hope that you have enjoyed it. Maloyallstars Production urges you to you to book Gramoun Sello, the last Maloya’s Legend for your next event or festival.
www.myspace.com/gramounsello
Contact :
Stéphane GRONDIN /MALOYALLSTARS PRODUCTION
10 rue Augustin Mondon
97480 Saint Joseph
Mob: + 262 (0)6 92 01 72 44
Mail : contact@maloyallstars.com
Site: http://www.maloyallstars.com/
Ziskakan
During the late seventies, in Reunion Island, poets and musicians rallied in favour of the Creole language and of Reunion Island’s culture. The Ziskakan association was born in this context in 1979, at a group of friends’ instigation, carried away by Gilbert Pounia.
Traditionally, it is in "kabar" (Malagasy word “Kabary” meaning assembly) that maloya could be heard, felt and played with its instruments of predilection: the “rouleur” (a horse-drum that one overlaps), the “bobre” (a musical arc), the “kayamb” (a box made of sugar kane flowers sterms which contains seeds, that one shakes flat - this movement gives birth to the 6-8, the rhythmic signature of the maloya).
The latter, between a stolen humanity and a possible happiness, is used as an identity. From this blues, Gilbert Pounia will establish his creation, imaging in the course of the stages and recordings, a contemporary maloya fed by the virtues of the insular Creole culture: a cocktail of interbreeding African, European, Indian, Chinese and mixed-race descendants.
His talent is recognized and he won 2 Kora Awards in 1997 and the Césaire de la Musique award for Best Group of 2007 for his last CD Banjara. Are you ready to meet a rare poet, singer and musician?
www.myspace.com/ziskakan
Contact :
Sarah HUGON / OPEN MUSIK MANAGEMENT
Mob: +262 (0)6 92 53 80 03
Mail: saradiega@hotmail.com
Tiana
Tiana draws with happiness in the heritage of her island to build a universe which puts in the light the very best of her native country: Madagascar. As an accomplished composer and performer, it is on stage that Tiana’s art is revealed: her dynamism, charisma and presence have always touched and moved the audience.
She has received the "Gasitsara award" in Madagascar for "Best Artist of the year" 1996. In 1998, Tiana was elected “woman of the year” in Culture, by the Malagasy press. Since 1995, she has performed on many stages in Indian Ocean Area and to Europe (The Olympia and Babel Med Music in 2008).
Her last album, Ibesafira resounds of its Malagasy roots: mixing modern and traditional, its music is a very original melting pot which comes to life both on stage and on CD.
www.tianamusic.com
www.myspace.com/tianademada
Contact :
Daniel BOISSON / JBE MIZIK
79, rue Bernardin - Bois Rouge - 97460 Saint Paul - Île de la Réunion
Tél: +262 (0)2 62 32 84 84 Mob: +262 (0)6 92 86 49 25
Fax: +262 (0)2 62 32 84 85
Mail: jbe.mizik@wanadoo.fr
Site : http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jbemizik/
Apolonia
Bruno Escyle, founder and leader of band Apolonia, is passionately native of Reunion and resolutely Séga. But he composes as he lives, open minded and turned towards “the outside”. As a result, he has collaborated with other artists of the Indian Ocean (Tiana of Madagascar and Gerard Louis of Mauritius)… With seventeen years of experience behind them, many shows in Reunion Island or abroad and ten records that have been very successful, Apolonia became a renouned band and a very popular one. From segas to lovesongs, many Reunionese have danced at least once to Apolonia’s music, or dreamed of the band’s success. Bruno’s favourite songwriting themes are Love, everyday life in Reunion Island and more serious issues like slavery or consumerism.
Apolonia presents lively and accomplished shows, containing ségas, creole love songs, and tracks that groove to “other” rhythms. The last album Mon l’Univers brings new and original acoustic textures, without forsaking the origins of Séga.
www.myspace.com/apolonia974
Contact :
Daniel BOISSON / JBE MIZIK
79, rue Bernardin - Bois Rouge - 97460 Saint Paul - Île de la Réunion
Tél: +262 (0)2 62 32 84 84 Mob: +262 (0)6 92 86 49 25
Fax: +262 (0)2 62 32 84 85
Mail: jbe.mizik@wanadoo.fr
Site : http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jbemizik/
Zong
Born on Reunion Island, Zong’s new opus Fractures is a hybrid of composite influences: live electro, deep dub, raging punk and futuristic maloya. This invention is called Zong, a trio of individuals that is constantly polishing a truly unique sound.
Fractures, their new opus, was created in the heart of an island that is in perpetual movement and explores every possibility.
www.zong.mu
www.myspace.com/zongparadisthematik
Contact :
Cyril TOMAS-CIMMINO / BI-POLE
Mob: +33 (0)6 20 663 757
Mail: info@bi-pole.org
Site: www.bi-pole.org
Contact
Management: Jean LAFITTE / JLLJ’s Prod
Mob: +262 (0)6 92 37 69 03
Fax: +262 (0)2 62 58 52 94
Mail: jlljsprod@gmail.com
Rencontre autour de l’export des groupes de métal et rock
Le Bato Fou, en partenariat avec le Pôle Régional des Musiques Actuelles, vous invite à une rencontre le jeudi 25 juin à partir de 18 heures au bureau du Bato Fou (15 A, rue du Père Favron à St-Pierre). Autour de la table, des musiciens de Backstroke, Andémya, Nazca et Thermoboy (sous réserve) viendront parler de leur expérience.
Dans un contexte où il est déjà difficile aux groupes réunionnais de se faire remarquer par les programmateurs extérieurs, comment monter une tournée quand on est un groupe de rock ou de métal ? En effet, la musique « made in » la Réunion est tombée depuis un moment dans le bac « World Music » des programmateurs et autres labels, alors comment se faire accepter quand, en plus de ne pas jouer de musique traditionnelle, on se place sur un registre déjà saturé de milliers de groupes... Ces questions seront abordées au cours de cette rencontre.
Pour y participer, merci de bien vouloir nous contacter par téléphone (02 62 25 65 61) ou par email (contact@batofou.org).
Avis d'examen en vue de l'obtention du certificat d'aptitude aux fonctions de professeur de musique
(session 2009-2011)
Les épreuves de l'examen du certificat d'aptitude aux fonctions de
professeur des conservatoires classés par l'Etat auront lieu de 2009 à
2011.
Epreuves d'admissibilité : 4e trimestre 2009-1er trimestre 2010.
Epreuves d'admission : 1er trimestre 2011, pour les disciplines suivantes : violon, musique traditionnelle.
Retrait des dossiers d'inscription : jusqu'au 30 juin 2009.
Date limite de dépôt ou d'envoi des dossiers : 17 juillet 2009 (le cachet de la poste faisant foi). Aucun dossier ne sera accepté après cette date.
Seules les demandes de dossier écrites ou par courriel seront prises en
compte. Elles doivent être adressées à la direction de la musique, de
la danse, du théâtre et des spectacles (sous-direction de l'emploi et
de la formation, bureau des enseignements et de la formation, secteur
des examens), pièce 105, 62, rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris, accompagnées
d'une enveloppe de format 23 × 32 cm, timbrée au tarif « service rapide
jusqu'à 100 g », libellée au(x) nom(s) et à l'adresse du candidat, soit
par courriel à l'adresse suivante : suzanne.bergault@culture.gouv.fr,
en précisant la discipline.
Quand un quatuor classique s'enflamme sur un rythme à 5 temps, porté par un quartet de jazz et des tambours de l'Afrique et des Antilles, notre sale histoire commune liée par les chaînes de l'esclavage s'écrase devant l'évidence que l'humanité respire et gronde dans l'altérité.
Pliss Conscience, ce single de 3 titres, précurseur d’un futur album, envahira les ondes et les Sound Systems au cours du mois de Mai et révèlera un chanteur aux textes engagés et à la musique enlevée.
A l’heure où le dance-hall semble avoir trouvé son rythme de croisière grâce à la popularité sans égale de Kaf Malbar, un autre Malbar promet de faire une entrée fracassante dans le giron musical local, prêt à déchaîner les foules à l’instar de son aîné.
Retenez bien son nom : Zamzy, vous ne pourrez plus vous en passer…
Nous sommes des millions, ils font de nous des pirates.
Je prends le parti des pirates.
Ils sont, nous sommes, des millions, en France, chaque jour à échanger des oeuvres: des tubes, des films à la mode, mais aussi des films et des disques rares, introuvables, des œuvres oubliées ou «tombées» dans le domaine public.
Ces pratiques sont là pour durer. Elles sont inscrites dans la révolution numérique.
Les tentatives d'interdire les échanges sur Internet - par l'intimidation ou par le filtrage - sont vaines.
Leur coût en termes de libertés publiques est inacceptable.
Cantonnées dans la clandestinité, ces pratiques de partage ne donnent pas, il est vrai, le meilleur d'elles-mêmes.
C'est au grand jour qu'elles révéleront toutes leurs potentialités.
Il est grand temps de reconnaître ces pratiques. De cesser cette guerre contre le public et la jeunesse.
En attendant ce jour, je prends le parti des pirates.
REPARATION ET ACCORDAGE D'ACCORDEONS ILE DE LA REUNION Philippe Imbert, réparateur et accordeur d'accordéons bien connu de tous les accordéonistes réunionnais, sera sur l'île du lundi 26 janvier au mercredi 4 février pour assurer le service après-vente et l'entretien des instruments qu'il a eu l'occasion de fournir localement. Pour un rendez-vous durant son séjour Tel: 04-77-64-99-18 ou imbert.ph2@orange.fr
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